‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

Point Illustration Explanation Mini-conclusion Introduction Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a tour de force based on speculative dystopian fiction. In the novel, Atwood creates a society run by a theocratic government, and Handmaids are recruited to repopulate the sterility struck society. It was written in 1985 and is written in a first person limited narrative stance. The protagonist of the novel is a Handmaid named Offred.

A handmaid's tale.

Part 1 Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra: history, nationalism, and female identity maternal circles and family lines - the narrative of the seventies colour and music - the narrative of the early eighties the same old song - the narrative and drama of the late eighties. Part 2 Rosa Montero: women, institutions, and thought systems sites of resistance - the narrative of the end of a decade inner spaces and power lines - the narrative of the eighties flights of fantasy - the narrative of the ninties.

Contemporary Feminist Fiction in Spain: The Work of Montserrat Roig and Rosa Montero

This dissertation analyzes the ways in which the Spanish Generation X writers Jose Angel Manas (b. 1971), Lucia Etxebarria (b. 1966), Gabriela Bustelo (b. 1962), and Pedro Maestre (b. 1967) represent Madrid and other late twentieth-century cityscapes in their respective novels Ciudad rayada (1998), Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes (1998), Veo veo (1996), and Matando dinosaurios con tirachinas (1996). These novels sketch an alarming social portrait of youth dissent in Spain’s nascent democracy, which had relatively recently joined social, political, and economic arms with the rest of Western Europe. I read the representations of Madrid, Edinburgh, Elda, and Alcoy in these narratives as antagonistic and anthropomorphic spaces that stalk, coerce, and then attack the first-person narrators who scurry about them, rat-like. But these characters demonstrate impressive instincts that protect them from death and emotional destruction and strengthen their identities in the face of a postauthoritarian society enmeshed in the forces of global capitalism. These Generation X authors introduce their characters to a discordant physical environment, one that works against the grain of the image Spain sought to show the world in 1992 as Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympics, Seville held the Universal Exposition, and Madrid was recognized as the European Union’s Capital of Culture. Spain was trying to show the world that it had resurrected itself from the ashes of dictatorship to become a modern democracy worthy of a seat at Europe’s table. But Manas, Etxebarria, Bustelo, and Maestre do not accept that line of thinking. In their renderings, Spain does not emerge as successful in international political and economic arenas but as a highly conflictive nation.

https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4747&context=etd

Rats in the city: mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's generation X

7 SPACE AND THEORY: HISTORICAL AND NARRATOLOGICAL INTRODUCTIONS 8 ALEX DE LA IGLESIA’S ACCION MUTANTE AND THE LIMITS OF FASHION AND TECHNOLOGY 58 GABRIELA BUSTELO’S PLANETA HEMBRA OR HOW TO MIX AN ANNIHILATION COCKTAIL 110 RAFAEL REIG’S SANGRE A BORBOTONES: CITY PRESENT REINVENTED ..... 145 CONCLUSIONS 176 WORKS CITED 205

Utopias of Thought, Dystopias of Space: Science Fiction in Contemporary Peninsular Narrative

"Stephen Luis Vilaseca. Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricard Mella Anthology.." Romance Quarterly, 69(3), pp. 177–178 

Susan Marie Divine

Papers

Utopias of Thought, Dystopias of Space: Science Fiction in Contemporary Peninsular Narrative

Stephen Luis Vilaseca. Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricard Mella Anthology.